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If you were worried that all the romantic subplots in the previous episode of Marshals were getting a little too soap opera, worry not. Episode...

One could probably argue that there’s an inherent romance in the western genre, something about the sunsets and landscapes and open air. But a show...

I didn’t expect the most meaningful sentiment of Rooster thus far to come from Walt, of all people, but here we are in Episode 7, three half-hours removed from the finale, and the hothouse has become a source of surprising pathos.

The key question that will likely define the short-term future of Euphoria is whether Sam Levinson is attempting to satirise the facile horniness of the American Dream, or if he truly believes that the most anyone can aspire to these days is sucking on a pacifier while dressed as an adult baby.

“Fly” is the most famously divisive episode of Breaking Bad, a budget-saving bottle hour in which Walter White and, eventually, Jesse become dangerously obsessed with...

I feel like I’m always singing the praises of Sheriff Country, but it keeps delivering episodes that justify all the enthusiasm.

The network procedural crossover is a thing of occasional beauty, but also one of often confusing annoyance, especially when it isn’t technically a crossover.

Now this is more like it! The Hunting Party slipped into Season 2’s familiar holding pattern last week, with a decent enough case that just didn’t feel...

The secret to most Bill Lawrence shows is that you want to spend time with their characters. You like them, as you would your own...

Euphoria has always been many things – salacious, provocative, stupid, lurid, occasionally brilliant, and so on, and so forth – but chief among them was...

I have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t going to love the ending of DTF St. Louis. And I can see why, honestly. I’m about to...

I’ve always hated the naive – and, frankly, entirely incorrect – idea that characters in stories have to be “likeable” or “relatable”. There are all-time-great...

Jonathan Glatzer’s TV résumé is tough to argue with, but it’s difficult to watch his Silicon Valley satire The Audacity and not feel like the...

Edgewater is a pretty weird place, which isn’t helped by the fact that most people there are on drugs. But for once, the town’s lax...

I’ve been complaining for weeks that Boston Blue tends not to make use of Sean and Jonah, but at the risk of sounding like I’m...

As a network procedural, you can’t fault The Hunting Party for having a pattern. Season 2 has relied on it to varying extents, delivering a slew of...

“Exposed” is a fairly apt title for the ending of Memory of a Killer’s first season run, since it applies to Angelo and his nemesis,...

The Comeback is about, among other things, how times change, and a function of the changing times is leaving not only things – trends, ideas,...